Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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IFn fllbemonam ANDREW RUBER 1'SON BYERLY

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TOUCHSTONE 11 Appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction 1909-1912 Dr. Daniel Fleischer..............................Columbia.'Pa. Hon. M. J. Brecht, A. M.. 5......................Lancaster. Pa. Hon. Charles I. Landis............................Lancaster. Pa. 1910-1913 Hon. John G. Homsher......................................Strasburg, Pa. Andrew F. Frantz..........................................Lancaster, Pa. Hon. Amos H. Mylin....................................Lancaster, Pa. 1911-1914 A. F. Hostettek. Esq., '70..........................Lancaster. Pa. Hon. Henry Houck, ’75.................................Lebanon. Pa. Hon. David McMullen. Esq.. ’68......................Lancaster. Pa. Officers of the Board President—David McMullen, Esq.. Lancaster. Pa. Secretary—H. Edgar Sheri .. Esq.. Millersville. Pa. Treasurer—J. V. Lansinc.er. Millersville. Pa. 4 The regular meetings f the Board of Trustees are held at the School on the first Saturday of each month.

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TOUCHSTONE 3 Andrew Robertson Byerly Andkkw Rohkktson Byeri.y. the subject of this sketch, was Ijorn July ( , 1833. xn North I luntingdon Township, Westmoreland C ounty, Pa. He was a son of Adam Byerly. Ilis grandfather. Rev. James Rowers, who was a Presbyterian minister, is said to have been the tirst ordained minister west of the Alleghenies. Most of the early part of Dr. Byerly s life was spent on his father's farm. He attended the conrron schools during the winter until his seventeenth year. Before coming to Millersville he also spent one session at Merrittstown Presbyterian Academy and one at Jefferson College. at Canonsburg. He entered the Lancaster County Normal School in April. 1857. and was assigned to the Junior year of the Scientific C ourse. He attended the full session of twenty-two weeks. There was no graduating class in 1857. but what was called a commencement was held and Dr. Byerly was chosen as valedictorian. He returned for the Senior year and completed the course, being one of the lir-t graduates of the Lancaster County Normal School. His collegiate work was done at W ashington and Jefferson College, where he received his degree. 1 .afavette College conferred uj on hi n the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He began his work as a teacher in a subscription school, which he himself conducted, in the spring of 1850. The next fall he took up the work in his home school and taught here for six successive terms. In the seventh year he took a neighlmring school of a longer term. He never finished this term, coming to Millersville to attend what was then the Lancaster County Normal School. Upon graduating in the Scientific Course, he was retained as a teacher bv Prof. Wickcrshatn. The school was afterwards changed to a State Normal School and Dr. Byerly continued as an instructor at this institution up to a short time before his